The Federal Trade Commission is sending notices to more than 9,000 people that they may be eligible for compensation stemming from the Commission’s settlement with home security company Vivint Smart Home, Inc. over charges that the company misused credit reports to help customers to obtain financing. Vivint violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by misusing credit reports…
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Joint statement on data scraping and data protection
The Information Commissioner’s Office and eleven other data protection and privacy authorities from around the world have today published a joint statement calling for the protection of people’s personal data from unlawful data scraping taking place on social media sites. Data scraping is an automated way to pull large amounts of information from the web. Scraping from…
Is OCR Correct That Website Metadata Is Regulated by HIPAA? Chicago Federal Court Asks
Scott Lashway and Matthew Stein of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips write: The plaintiff’s bar continues to bring new wiretapping claims over pixels and analytics programs in courts around the country, including against hospitals and other entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This comes, in part, on the heels of the…
India Passes Digital Personal Data Protection Act
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: Stephen Mathias from Kochhar & Co. reports that in early August 2023, the Indian Parliament passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (the “Act”), bringing to a close a 5-year process to enact an omnibus data privacy law in India. The Act was ratified by the President of India and will come…